A Quote by Tony Tan

I plan to work my utmost for Singaporeans, whatever be their political affiliation. The presidency is above politics.

Tony Tan

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Tony Tan
Singaporean - Statesman

Whatever the political affiliation of our next President, whatever his views may be on all the issues and problems that rush in upon us, he must above all be the chief executive in every sense of the word.

John F. Kennedy

Whatever your political affiliation may be, whether you are a conservative or liberal, we should all be bound by the belief that we need to support the troops.

Candace Kita

I will work in partnership with the Government, all political parties, and civil society to safeguard and advance the future of all Singaporeans.

Tony Tan

The artist can be above political parties, he can belong in a political party, he can act in politics.

Eugene Ionesco

The attempt to divide art and politics is a bourgeois which says good poetry, art, cannot be political, but since everything is … political, even an artist or work that claims not to have any politics is making a political statement by that act.

Amiri Baraka

As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people's struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism.

Angela Davis

Judges certainly have political connections and strong political views, but that doesn't mean they can't rise above politics when they hear cases. We expect them to, and the law presumes they do.

George T. Conway III

I love being able to be political without any political affiliation.

Lady Gaga

Peace cannot come by legislation or through affiliation with any political philosophy...Peace, joy, and happiness can come only through an acceptance of God's revealed plan of life.

Theodore M. Burton

I also do not believe that the United States can let itself be driven into a political role by escalating terrorism, and therefore, the leaders of the Arab world and Arafat should do their utmost to put an end to this and then the United States should do its utmost to produce a political solution.

Henry A. Kissinger

My family was entirely political, all the time, on the left. The opposite of that is not to be political on the right. It's trying not to be - politics is not everything. There's life other than politics. Politics intrudes.

Whit Stillman

'Singaporeans first' is different from saying 'Singaporeans only.'

Tony Tan

The President must be above politics. He must not be a proxy to any political party. His interest must be national, not with a political agenda in mind.

Tan Cheng Bock

My father claimed no political affiliation. He supported Al Gore because he knew him as a human being. He supported Lamar Alexander, who was the governor of Tennessee, who was a Republican. It was based on the individual. He didn't believe in politics. He based his support for someone on their heart and their integrity.

John Carter Cash

The question is wholly other, deeper and equally relevant to all: whether we shall, by whatever means, succeed in reconstituting the natural world as the true terrain of politics, rehabilitating the personal experience of human beings as the initial measure of things, placing morality above politics and responsibility above our desires, in making human community meaningful, in returning content to human speech, in reconstituting, as the focus of all social action, the autonomous, integral, and dignified human "I."

Vaclav Havel

What is politics? Political system is equal to development politics plus political politics.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

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